Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Payne, who taught at the Graduate School of Design until 1963, spoke of the walkway web as "tame, non-aggressive" redevelopment, contrasting it with massive, "visionary" schemes such as those proposed by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority and "Team Monad," a group of former GSD students...
...Center will be run by the chairmen of the various subcommittees of the Center Committee and the Trustees, a group of adult advisors...
Albert seems to have brought things back together. The old format of pre-rehearsed improvisations has been dropped in favor of more spontaneous improvisations in which both locations and characters are solicited from the audience. Just from watching the group, one could tell that there was not so much anguish: the cast enjoyed what was happening, and worked as a team...
Albert says of the show when he came to it. "It was a history of doing things the wrong way. This little theater group was operating under 'the star system.' The actors would cut each other's throats for laughs. It had a canned quality, and in that, it was almost like a TV show. The show was artistically bad, and it was boring. The actors didn't respect themselves or each other...
...also worked on sense awareness. One day I told the group to be a donut. They spent a long time just standing in a circle until they began to understand doneness. Then we took bites away by having people leave the room, and we tried to understand at what point the donut stopped being a donut. Then I had them be the hole, then try to understand the difference between a jelly donut and a glazed donut. If you can understand how to convey 'donut' theatrically, you can play any character. Also we tried to understand what nonverbal communication means...